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State Pension age changes

The State Pension age is set to increase to help manage the rising cost of state pensions due to us all living longer.

If you were born in the 1960s, you could be affected although the change is not yet law and still needs to be approved by Parliament.

People born between 6 April 1960 and 5 March 1961 will reach State Pension age between 66 and 67.

People born between 6 March 1961 and 5 April 1977 will have a State Pension age of 67.*

The State Pension age is planned to increase to 68 from 2044 affecting anyone born after 5 April 1977.

The government is already considering how the State Pension age could better reflect changes in life expectancy in the future. This is likely to mean that the existing timetable to increase State Pension age to 68 will be revised.

*People born between 6 April 1969 and 5 April 1977 already have a State Pension age of 67.  Those born between 6 April 1968 and 5 April 1969 would have had a State Pension age between 66 and 67. These people will now have a State Pension age of 67.

Source: Time For Money

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